Imaging Device Integrating Patient Vitals Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical imaging systems, such as X-ray devices, struggle to capture and integrate patient vitals data in real-time during imaging procedures, leading to delayed and inaccurate diagnoses due to the separation of imaging and vital information collection.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a communication interface and artificial intelligence models into X-ray devices to capture and combine imaging and non-imaging data, including vitals, patient history, and environmental information, forming a composite data set for immediate processing and analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If imaging data and non-imaging data are collected separately using separate devices, then device complexity is reduced, but diagnosis accuracy and efficiency deteriorate due to delayed and inaccurate diagnoses
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines separate imaging devices and patient monitor devices into an integrated system where both imaging data and non-imaging physiological data are collected simultaneously through a unified data collection module, enabling comprehensive real-time patient assessment without requiring multiple separate devices
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging device is enhanced to perform multiple functions: it not only captures imaging data but also collects non-imaging physiological data, processes both data types, and generates comprehensive diagnostic reports, thereby reducing the need for separate specialized devices
2Productivity
If imaging and vital information collection are performed separately, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of time increases due to delayed diagnosis
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data collection by simultaneously acquiring both imaging data and physiological vitals during the imaging procedure itself, rather than collecting vitals afterward, thereby eliminating delays and enabling immediate comprehensive analysis
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated system maintains continuous data collection and processing of both imaging and physiological information throughout the examination procedure, ensuring uninterrupted flow of diagnostic data and enabling real-time decision-making without temporal gaps
3Loss of information
If only imaging data is captured without non-imaging data, then device complexity is reduced, but information completeness deteriorates leading to inaccurate diagnoses
Solution Approach 1:
The data collection module is segmented into distinct components that separately capture imaging data and non-imaging physiological data through different interfaces and protocols, then systematically integrate these segmented data streams into a unified comprehensive dataset for complete diagnostic information
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AI summary
Apparatus, systems, and methods to capture and combine patient vitals and image data are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an imaging device to capture imaging data of a patient; a patient monitor to capture non-imaging data of the patient; and a communication interface between the imaging device and the patient monitor to route the non-imaging data to the imaging device. The example imaging device is to combine the non-imaging data with the imaging data to form a combined data set to be processed to determine a clinical outcome.